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Minor Notes.


The increase in the population Of Frankfort
this year. from present appearances, will be 20
per cent
Michigan City Commandery Knights Templars,
paid visit to Frankfort Commandery on Thurs
day night. banquet was given and good
time enjoyed.
Hon. A. F. Armstrong q. wealthy, public
spirited citizen Of Kokomo, has declared his in
tention to build So. 600 fountain in the public
square of that city, and donate it as a free gift
to the city.
George W. Mcpherson, an old ard highly
respected citizen of Kokomo. died at his home in
that city, Thursday of pneumonia, at the age OF
sixty-four years. His funeral was conducted
Yesterday at the Mission Church, by Rev. Hay
den Raybuzn.
J. s. Bailey, Bentonville school-teacher, was
waylald near midnight some weeks ago, and
struck in the back with heavy iron weight
Charles Williams, expelled pupil, was after
ward arrested, and his trial resulted in line OF
one cent, with costs of $50.
Work was yesterday resumed on the natural
gas well at Frankfort. The drill is now down
300 feet. The prospects for mammoth flow of
the great illuminant are hattering. Real estate
is booming. and several manufactures have their
agents in the town, looking for locations.
The w. c. T. U. Of Howard county have
elected the following officers for the ensuing
year: President, Mrs. NJ NJ. Sharp; vice presi-
| dent, Mrs Jennie Hendry: secretary, Miss Eta
Scott: treasurer. Mrs L. Kern. The society is
| in a very prosperous condition, and doing good
| work for the cause of temperance.
The school Of Prof James G. May. Indianas
Oldest teacher, at the McCloskey schoolhouse,
Washington county. was brought to close re-
Gently. The venerable school master is eighty
| two years old, and has been in the harness, or
| actively engaged in teaching, about sixty five
years. He has spent II 1872 days in the school
| room, and still is successful and energetic
| teacher The closing of his school was also on
| the ffty-eiehth anniversary Of his wedding day,
| and the neighbors crowded in and prepared a
sumptuons repast. prominent in which was a
| huge wedding cake.
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INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS
A Lafayette Woman Frightfully and
Perhaps Fatally Injured by Fire.
Murderous ARRAY at Richmond-Honest Man
Wrongfully Accused-Arrested on Charge
OF Forgery-Notes and Gleanings.
INDIANA.

A Young Woman ShockiDgly and Perhaps
Fatally Injured by Burning.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
LAFAYETTE, March 18-At an early hour this
morning young woman named Alice Jones,
domestic in restaurant, was probably fatally
burned. She was standing by the kitchen
range, when her clothing caught fire. Her dress
being light goods in an instant she was en-
veloped in flames, which shot up high above her
head. She ran screaming into the back yard,
and, in response to her cries, Joseph W. Petit,
employed in an adjoining bar room ran to her
rescue. He endeavored to tear her clothing off,
but a strong corset resisted his efforts The cries
of the poor girl were heartrending, and
attracted other persons, one Of whom threw q
pail Of water over her putting ont the fire. She
is horribly burned. Her back, from the should
ers down, is crisp, and her limbs are also badly
burned. Her hair was burned off, and the in
iuries and shock are so great that she will not
probably recover. Petit, the who first
came TO her assistance, is also severely burned
Both hands are badly blistered, and on the right
hand the flesh is burned to a crisp in many
places He will most probably be MANNED for
life
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Brief Mention.

Willie Studebaker, aged five years. shot him.
self through the heart while playing with re-
volyer at home, in Jacksonville.
Capt. James Lewis committed suicide at the
residence of his son -in-law, VIM. White at Gin
ton, on Wednesday night, by taking strychnine
and morphine The death of mis- wife and re-
cent financial losses are supposed to be the
cause.
Woman suffrage was sat upon in the Illinois
Senate, on Thursday. Senator Curtsss measure
making it lawful for any person without regard
to sex or color who possesses the necessary legal
qualifications to vote at district school elections
being defeated by vote of % to IL.
The body of Mrs. Arthur Terry, of Aurora, is
to be exhumed on the suspicion that she was
poisoned. The death was ascribed to poisonous
canned meat, but apparently similar attempts
have since been made upon the lives of all the
other members of the family except Arthur.
A farmer named John Lundon. VINO was rid
ing into Pecatonica with his daughter and son,
drove off the pike road. which is covered with
water, and the vehicle overturned. The
three were submerged in the rushing waters,
and the father and daughter were drowned The
son escaped by clingng to the harness Of one OF
the horses.
The Rev. p NJ. Donohue. of Charleston. who
was few days since created lieutenant in the
French army by General Boulanger for discov-
ering very destructive explosive for use in tor
pedo warfare, has decided to call his new inven-
ton ''carbonetted glycerine." He says his new
compound possesses ten times the power of
nitro glvcerine, and can be handled with much
more safety.
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OBITUARY.
Mrs. Adele Washburne. Wife Of the Hon.
Elihu II. Waahhurna.

Mrs. Adele Washburne. Wife OF the Hon.
Elihu II. Washburne
CHICAGO. March 1a-Mrs. Washburne, wife
Elihu B. Washburne, ex-United States minister
to France. and mother of City Attorney Hemp
stead WashburLe died at 7:10 o'clock this morn
ing at her rooms at the fremont House.
Mrs. Washburne was born near where Galena,
H., is located in September, 1926 Her maiden
name was Adele Gratiot, and her father had re-
moved to this State from ST. Louis, Mo-, short
time before her birth. Mr. Gratiot was q
brother of General Gratiot of the United States
army. and all were gentlemen of culture and
refinement. Mrs. Gratiot, the mother of Mrs
Washburne, was a sister of the late Charles S.
Hempstaad a wellKnown citizen of Galena
who was for many years a director of the Ga
lena & Chicago Railway Company. Miss
Gratiot grew to womanhood in Galena, and in
1874 was married to Elihu B. Washburne. AL
though reared in the West, Mrs Washburne was
a woman of wide culture, endowed with an ex-
ceedingly lovable nature. She had drawn about
her a large circle of friends to whom her pleas.
ant manners greatly endeared her. She was a
fit consort for her distinguished husband, and
ably discharged the duties incumbent upon her
during his public service. She was member of
the Prcsbv terrain Church.
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FLOOD In THE MISSOURI.
An Ice Gorge Near Bismarck Causes Serious
Damage-Worst of the Inundation to Come.

BISMARCK, D. T., March 18.-The Washburn
gorge broke last night, and early this morning
the river began to rise rapidly. A gorge was
formed below the city. The ice carried every
thing with it, and struck the immense warehouse
of the Northern Pacific one of the largest in the
world. The workmer narrowly escaped drown
irg, and in less than two hours from the time OF
tie gorge the water was in the second stories OF
Il Q river boarding houses. which had been built
on what was considered high ground. The ware
house. which is nearly seven hundred feet in
length, was moved bodily over thirty feet and
sent crashing against the bluffs. The loss on
the building will be over $15. 900.
The meadow land south of Bismarck, COM
prising 5000 acres, is now one vast sea. and the
ice is flowing over the newly made channel in
this body Of surplus water at the rate of ten
miles per hour The river at this point, which
is usually three-euarters of mile wide, is now
over six miles in width. The Northern Pacific
trains will be unable to cross the river for sew
eral days, and Bismarck will be the western ter
minus for aweek Superintendent Grayham at
tempted to go to Mandan, but the water on the
west side OF the river is flowing four feet deep
over the track, and the fires in the engine were
put out. Mandar is submerged, and the people
in the lower part of the city have been moving
into the upper stories of their dwellings. All
the small dwellings on the banks Of the stream
have been swept away or destroyed, and the
steamboats, lying at Rockhaven are in danger
The high trestle Of the Northern Pacific at this
point has been damaged.
AT o'clock P. NJ. the new channel which the
river has cut across the prairie let out the ice.
and the river has since fallen slowly but the
worst has not yet come. The ice went ont at
Fort Buford this morning, with rise of thirty
feet, the highest ever known. This food will!
not reach here until Saturday, when there will
probably be terrible destruction. The loss at
the river landing and the meadow land here
will already reach $50, 900.
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Special to the Indianapolis journal
WABASH, March 18-This afternoon. in the
Wabash Circuit Court, Nancy Hale, formerly
Nancy Waca-co nah young Indian woman.
fic1 srit for divorce against Charles Hale, her
husband, white man whom she married on
March 81 1881. Nancy gained considerable no.
torety by advertising for husband in several
papers in January, 1881, agreeing to bestowupo
a satisfactory man 200 acres of land, in addition
to "a wealth of affection. Hale wooed her sue
cessfully. and several days after the celebration
of the nuptials he set about dissipating her
une. prosecuting the task sc vigorously that the
farm. in four years, had taken wings.
He abused his wife shamefuly during
this period. and several months ago went to
Mnncie, where he is living with woman with
-s-.tss he-fferFaiity Of marriage ceremony. Mrs.
Hale is disgusted with her domestic experience
and prays for a separation, which will undoubt-
eddy be granted. There number of other
Indian maidens who married white men now
living the Reserve who bitterly regret their
choice, the husbands being, almost without ex-
ception, worthless vagabonds.
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THE GIRL Poems OF MEXICO.

How They Look, Act, Dress and Make
Love on the Haciendns.
Correspondence New York Mail and Express.
As rule, the most interesting objects which
the visitor will find on hacienda are the
muchachas or girl poems, than whom a more
the hills of Normandy, or in the wales of Switzer
land. When the numbering old stage-coach,
laden with passengers comes gathering up to
the gates OF q waysde hacienda to crave shelter
for the night, always the first to issue from the
gray walls in answer to the drivers CHEEKY
"Beunas dias, Senores" is the muchacha. True
to the fiber of curiosity which runs through the
nature of every feminine descendant of Eve,
she is anxious to know who has arrived, she
wants to watch their descent from the digencia
and all their subsequent movements, and she is
quite willing to get up Irritation on the instant
with any who may interest her.
Whatever her age, the muchacha is but q
grown-up Guild, fully developed physically at
the age of ten always simple, picturesque and
contented. Her name is probably Dolores
Refucio Guadalupe OF Antonio Though she
never saw bonnet in her life, and would not
know 1t from fish-net il you should give her
one. her face is never freckled. and her nut
brown skin is soft as velvet. never having been
roughened by soap. powder, or cosmetics. Her
hands and feet are very small, though never
| manac1ed by gloves, shoes or stockings: her
| limbs are invariably well-rounded, and her bust
| is superb. Her jetty hair, tied at the ends by a
bit of bright-hued ribbon. hangs behind her bare
brown shoulders in two long braids. It is
not banged" over the eyes, like
| poodles, crinped like an Ethiopian's. but,
parted straight through the middle Is glossy al
! tho wavens wing and black as the famous alta
| batche of her native hills. The freaks OF fckis
| fashion make no change in her attire. which il
/ always the same-nothing earth but ont
| short skirt and loose chemise, tho latter gen
orally embroidered ABOUT the shoulders, leaving
| her symmetrical arms entirely naked. and, II
| fact, most Of her person to the waist She i
entirely unconscious of q want Of further cloth
Ing, and the utmost '.smarting up" she ever in
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Almost a Murder.
Special to the Indianapolis journal.

Special to the Indianapolis journal.
RICHMOND, March 18.-Thers was bloody
ARRAY in the South End last night in which q
eolored man named John Wells, who, for many
years, was employed on the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton Il Dayton railroad, was nearly killed, and
his wounds may yet prove fatal. He and Charley
Roberts, barber. got into an alteration over
disreputable white woman, Mrs. Mary
Howarth, who has fallen from the position a
prosperous father once maintained her in to
aboutthe deepest depths that an appetite for drink
can bring her. 1t is understood that she
assisted Roberts, her paramount, while he
hacked Wells on the head with a Ratchet and
also on one arm aud hand. after knocking him
down with heavy tumbler. But Roberts says
he only fought in selfdefense when Wells at
tackled him to eject him from his house, in which
the woman was staying Awaiting develop
ments in Wells's condition, Roberts and Mrs.
Howarth were held in lieu of bond in the sum Of
81. 600 each, charged with intent to kill
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Double Wedding Mt Waldron.

Epecial to the indianapolis Journal
SHELBYvILLE, March 18-One of the most
brilliant society events of many months past
took place last night at the residence Of Ii. r.
Mings in Waldron. 1t was the double wedding
of Marion Powell, prominent and
well-to-do farmer, and Miss Kate Crosby,
an accomplished young lady, and
Mr. John A. Anderson, son of James B. Ander-
son. a wealthy farmer of Rush county. and Miss
Silvia Crosby, an accomplished and handsome
little lady and a sister of bride No /. The GER
emony was performed by the Rev. John Scull,
after which an elegant reception was held, at.
tended by the wealthy people of that section oil
Shelby and Rush counties.
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A Sample of Total Depravity.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MARION, March l8.-Betty Oppy, an awful ex-
ample of the orthodox doctrine of total deprav-
ity. was sent to Jail this morning on a fine of
SIS. Being released this morning from Jail,
she loaded basket with stones and bad
eggs and advanced against the residence of Mrs
Lucy Zahn, widow of q former clerk Of this
county. She caved the windows in with the
stones, and then despatched the eggs
curtains, carpets, piano. books and
pictures. The wreck almost COM
plete. This female helllon has been q
standing terror and nuisance for years. Peri
odically che breaks loose, and caves in a glass
front or empties bucket of slops on some unsus-
pecting victim She has shot three different
men of this place, none, however, fatally. There
ie a general sentiment here that some heroic
medicine will have to be applied. and If her next
victim will shoot her in her tracks he will prob
ably never be disturbed.
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AUCTION SALES.

TOR SALE-REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION
Il Washington-street business property. On Thurs
day, March "a, at o'clock, the premises, will
sell at public auction the business property known
Nos. $50 and 292 East Washington street. lot 81 214
x195 fextending back to Court street, located he.
tween East and Liberty Streets title perfect This
property will be sold two, three four FIVE six.
eight, nine and ten years time with rurchas
ers privilege of paying il desired There is
better location Washington street for good busi-
horse Don't forget the day of sale-Thursday.
March "a. ut o clock. w +. MICK & GO.
L. n PERRY Anctionser.
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Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
EpINBuRG. March 18.-Daniel w. Schaffer
formerly of this city, but late of Missouri, com
mitted suicide az the home of John Hammer
FIVE miles north Of here, last night, by drinking
laudanum. Two letters were found, one ad-
dressed to William Bennett, indianapolis and
the other to Mr.. Hammer, stating that he was
tired of living, having no home.
Nathan Pruitt, Of this city, disappeared on
March s. and is supposed to have been Drowned.
Search was made Yesterday and to-day. but DO
traces of him could be discovered
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An Honest Man wrop yful,v Accused

Special to the indianapolis Journal
HARTFoRD Cry, March 18-The report that
r. f. Mann, agent Of the Fort Wayne, Cincin-
natl & Louisville railway at this place. was short
in his accounts with the company proves to be
nnfounded. No shortage exists, and the report
was doubtless started by persons other than
railroad officials. DESTROYS of injuring the road
and the good name of the agent
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DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN.
Indications.

Indications.
WASHINGTON, March. 10, A. NJ.
For Indiana and Illinois-Fair, warmer wealth
err; winds generally southerly.
For West Virginia-Light rains or snow, fol-
lowed by fair weather, becoming warmer; north
erly winds, becoming variable.
For Ohio-Fair weather, preceded by rain or
snow on the lake coast; warmer: northerly winds,
becoming variable
For Eastern Internationally fair wealth
err: warmer; southerly winds.
For Western Michigan and Wisconsin, Gen
orally fair weather; warmer; variable winds.
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MILwAUKEE, March 18.-General Bragg has
cent . telegram denying the report that he is a
paralytic. This was called out by Washington
dispatch suggesting that for this reason he will
not be appointed to the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Judge Arthur Macarthur, of the
District of Columbia General Bragg says he
declined the judgeship weeks ago.
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Residence Burned.

Special to the indianapolis JournaI.
EVANSVILLE, March l8-The residence
of Mrs. w. J. Summers, situated eight miles
from this city, in Warrick county was entirely
consumed by fire early this morning, entailing
loss of $5, 900. There was an insurance Of S. 250
on the house and contents the risk being held
by the Home of New York.
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Sister Eupielia,

FREDERICK Md. March 18.-Mother Eu-
phelia, superior of Mount St Joseph Academy,
at Emmettsburg and the head of the Sisters
of Charity in America for twenty five. years.
died to-day after long illness. She was Miss
Caroline Benkneop. and born in Dublin
ireland, in 1916, and became a sister in 1891
She was widely known and greatly beloved
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Captain John Carlin.

WHEELING, W. Va, March 1S--Capt John
Carlin, department commander OF the G. A. r,
of West Virginia, and a veteran of the Rebellion
and Mexican wars. died at his homo in this city
this morning, aged sixty-three. He will be
buried on Sunday with military honors. He was
chief Of artillery under General Sgel, and served
with distinction.
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physician found that he had been struck on the
head with some sharp instrument which frac-
tured the skull and drove fragments into the
brain. The matter is shrouded in mystery. No
cars had passed on the track where he was
found, and some of his friends say it was an at
tempt at assassination. The young man is a
son of Mr.. Michael Craft. one of the oldest
engineers on the Evansville & Terre Haute rail-
road.
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Found Insensibie ON tho Trnch.
a.. ,cS;anannff. Va-rrns

Special to tho lndlanaDoIls Journai
EVANSVILLE, March 1&-At ! o'clock this
afternoon, Sherman Craft twenty years old,
a brakeman on tho Louisville e. Nashville rail-
road, was found lying near the river, on ono of
the tracks, in an unconscious condition. A
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dulges in Is to add string of red beads to her
neck. brass bracelet or two to her arms, and to
hang pair OF enormous silver hoops in her ears
For church wear and such festive occasions as
bull fight or function del gallo she has blue or
black cotton reboso-a sort OF long shawl-which
with one careless toss she winds tightly over her
head and shoulders
Inc muchacha is always the same, whether
she De the child OF peon or house servant. or
even the heiress of small farmer-a product
peculiar to rural Mexico; attractive in youth, an
old woman at thirty, yet unsophisticated as a
baby II she live to the age of eighty. She is gov
erned by the tropical instincts of q passionate
race rather than by the trammels of education
coquettish by nature, yet as innocent of premed
ltated grossness was Eve before the fashion
OF ng leaves. AS may be imagined, the manner
IN which such creature is woed and won n.y.
meneally is as unique as herself She is ham,
pered by no such rigid rules of etiquette en-
viron her aristocratic neghbor. Juanita whose
courtship aud marriage we lately Witnessed;
therefore. the Mexican Haidee. following the
bent OF her inclinations, does her full share of
the wooing, and If crossed in love or aroused to
Jealousy has been known to handle the dagger
with the fury of Jael.
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Christian.

CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH-CORNER OF
~ Delaware and Ohio streets. Rev. E. j. Gantz,
pastor. Services to morrow at 1890 and 7:3O
p Morning subject. THE Trials and Sentence
Against Christ; evening bject Moses as Prophet
Thursday at 7:30 p. m Young peoples meeting
Wednesday at 7:3O p m. All cordially invited
to attend these services.
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Good implements save labor. The use of an
inferior plow during the busy season not only
delays operations to certain extent but the eff
fects of the poor work done extend to the time
when the crop is harvested.
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BOYS CLASSICAL SCHOOL

Eleventh year. Prepares for Harvard Yale and all
other Colleges and Scientific Schools. Send for cata
logue Special instructors in Gymnastics. Voice Quilt
and Drawing Four boarding pupils received.
Z. L. SEWALI, Indianapolis. Ind.
Sspzrxts school FOR girls
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Methodist Episcopal.

CENTRALrAVENUE METHODIST EPISCOPAL
~ Church-Corner of Central and Butler
street. Rev. A. w. Lamport pastor. Preaching to-
morrow by the pastor at 1o30a. M and 7:30 p. m.
Class meeting at $50 a. Sunday sehool at 2: Is
p. m: w. ID. Cooper superintendent. Young people
meeting at $50 p Strangers cordially vel
coined
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DIED.
DENNY-In Indianapolis, March 1a. 1887 at 7:45
4. NJ. Mary Mahalah Denny. wife of Robert Denny.
from paralysis after suffering sixteen months.
Funeral services Sunday, March 20. at p. NJ, at
the family residence, No. ~ South Noble street.
Friends invited.
ETLrS-Miss Daisy, at Topeka, Kan, March A.
Funeral ON Sunday. the Goth. at 1880 A. NJ. from
California street NJ E. Church. Friends view the
remains UP to 10 o'clock A. N Sunday at the resi-
dence of Mr.. Y. v. Kimble, No. 275 Indiana avenue
STONE--Eett;e daughter of D. E. Stone. at 215
Christian avenue.
Funeral Sunday afternoon at $50.
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A Slight Cold.

III neglected, often attacks the lungs. Browns
Bronchial Troches give sure and immediate re-
lief. Sold only Ia boxes Price % cents